[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[JF Mezei]

Just a comment:

There have been suggestions about adding looping. (I use that as an
example).


One can already do looking in DCL, and except for ability to do a loop
on a single line which you can do in bash, there isn't much functionlity
that is prevented.

The focus should be on giving DCL functionlity that is missing or
extremely hard/complex to do.

for instance: make it possible do do

$edit "Recette de gâteau au chocolat.txt"  instead of the extremely
complex and non obvious escaping needed in DCL/VMS.


Another suggestion: once VMS 1.0 is available on that architecture I
can't name without making people angry, VSI should poll those customers
who do migrate to that architecture on what features they are using (and
this need upward compatibility).

This may allow VSI to make non-upward competible changes to VMS on that
platform, knowing customers are not dependent on old behaviour and thus
enable new features that way without being hampered by customers with
legacy code who aren't gonna upgrade anyways.